The
graduate program in medieval history is committed to providing a rigorous and
broad training in a cooperative atmosphere. The faculty, many of whom adopt an
interdisciplinary perspective to the study of the middle ages, works closely
with students to foster a supportive learning environment. We also encourage
students to apply for external fellowships (with considerable success), to give
scholarly conference papers, and to publish some of their research before
completing their degree. Most students by their second or third year of PhD work
(after taking a pedagogy seminar) are able to assume sole responsibility for
teaching one of the introductory history courses in European or medieval
history. MA graduates at Fordham have gone on to a variety of careers, including
high-school teaching, law school, business school, and newspaper journalism.
Faculty
Richard Gyug: medieval liturgy, religion and society, codicology, Spain and
Italy
Maryanne Kowaleski: medieval women, family,
towns, maritime history, Britain
Anne Mannion: medieval
monasticism and institutional history
Wolfgang Mueller: medieval law, institutions,
and the church, Germany and Italy
Nicolas Paul: medieval nobility, historiography
and memory, Crusades, Angevin Empire and medieval France
The Center for Medieval
Studies includes 30 faculty in its eight participating departments. The
Center aims to foster a lively intellectual and social community of medievalists
at Fordham by sponsoring a lecture series, annual conference, newsletter,
bibliographical and pedagogical websites, and regular social gatherings. The
Center’s specific programs for graduate students include team-taught
interdisciplinary graduate courses, workshops on professionalization and
pedagogy, medieval language reading groups, two annual essay prizes, and a
graduate student directory, among other activities.
Graduate Students
Fordham has one of the largest and
most active communities of medieval graduate students in the country. There are
about fifteen to twenty students enrolled in MA or PhD programs in medieval
history at Fordham, as well as over fifty other medievalists in MA and PhD
programs in
Classics,
English,
Medieval Studies,
Philosophy,
and
Theology. All are encouraged to take full advantage of the
resources available to medievalists in New York City, including the
NYC Medieval Studies Doctoral Consortium.
After taking a seminar in pedagogy,
graduate students are able to gain considerable teaching experience by taking
complete responsibility for teaching one of the History “core” courses, such as
The West from the Enlightenment to the Present and Introduction to
Medieval History. Students are also encouraged to give papers at scholarly
conferences and to publish their research in scholarly venues. Many have also
been successful in winning prestigious awards such as Fulbright Scholarships,
Mellon Foundation grants, dissertation fellowships from the Medieval Academy and
National Conference of British Studies, travel grants from the American
Historical Society, the Bibliographical Society of America and the Medieval
Academy, and fellowships taking them to the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library,
the Folger Library, the Huntingdon Library, and the Vatican Film Library in St
Louis, among others. For lists of the recent accomplishments of our graduate
students, click on one of the below.
Scholarly Conference
Papers
Publications
Recent Medieval History
Graduate Courses (2003-2007)
Recent PhD Thesis In Progress in Medieval History
Recent PhD Thesis Completed In Medieval History
Alumni (Coming Soon!)
